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"Oh my word, what a slog this book has become! It's my first read in the fantasy genre and I've enjoyed the first two thirds.
Now we've reached the readying-for-battle portion of the book and I've come to understand why fantasy novels have to include maps and diagrams of family lineage and definitions of the players and pronunciation of names. Zzzzzzzz." — Nov 12, 2025 03:22AM
"Oh my word, what a slog this book has become! It's my first read in the fantasy genre and I've enjoyed the first two thirds.
Now we've reached the readying-for-battle portion of the book and I've come to understand why fantasy novels have to include maps and diagrams of family lineage and definitions of the players and pronunciation of names. Zzzzzzzz." — Nov 12, 2025 03:22AM
felt something I hadn’t experienced in a long time. It was like my heart was smiling.
“A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
This is a moment:”
― Look Homeward, Angel
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
This is a moment:”
― Look Homeward, Angel
“...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.”
― Look Homeward, Angel
― Look Homeward, Angel
“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.”
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“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
― Sand and Foam
― Sand and Foam
“The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions.
Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.”
― The Problem of Pain
Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.”
― The Problem of Pain
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